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Deadly Traffic: Tests Link Freeway Smog To Brain Cancer

Daily Bulletin | Posted 12.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Cancer, Freeways, Brain Tumor, Health, Brain Cancer, Smog, Traffic, Polution, Congestion, Green News

In as little as three months, the brains of laboratory rats begin to change after being exposed to the air around congested Southern California freewa...

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How Beijing Cleans Its Air (and Fakes It Too)

Alex Pasternack | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Smog, Steel, Climate Change, Beijing, China, Traffic Reduction, Global Warming, Olympics, Natural Gas, Green News

Did a New York Times article about improvements to air quality in Beijing bear echoes of the Chinese state-run media?

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EPA Smog Limit: Agency Scraps Bush-Era Smog Rule And Will Start Over

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: George Bush, Smog Rules, Environmental Regulation, Obama, Smog, Justice Department, Smog Limits, Bush, Epa, Health, Asthma, Respiratory Illnesses, Air Pollution Law, Air Pollution, Heart Attacks, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is scrapping a controversial Bush-era rule that set stricter limits for smog but fell short of ...

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Green News Report - July 14, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Nuclear Power, Swine Flu, Renewable Energy, Pollution, Coal, Los Angeles, Coal-Fired Plants, Recycling, Bush Administration, Smog, Recycled Materials, China Energy, Sustainability, Nuclear-Meltdown, Sustainable Seafood, China, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Bush smacked down on smog; Texans told to conserve; Naked & recycled .... PLUS: The 50th Anniversary of the nation's first...

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LA Vows to be Coal-Free by 2020: Can It Be Done?

TreeHugger | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Antonio Villaraigosa, Green Energy, Smog, Coal, LA Coal Free, Green News

Yesterday, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced his intention to make the city entirely coal-free by 2020, and turn to clean and renewable...

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NY Air Pollution Carries Serious Cancer Risk: Feds

AP | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, New York Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Smog, New York Smog, Epa, Toxic Air Pollutants, Pollution, Air Pollution, New York, New York City, New York News

AP - Millions of people living in nearly 600 neighborhoods across the country are breathing concentrations of toxic air pollutants that put them at a ...

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Barcelona's Smog Laced With Cocaine, Other Drugs: Study

AP | CIARAN GILES | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Spain, Barcelona, Cocaine, Smog, Cocaine Smog, Barcelona Cocaine Smog, Superior Council of Scientific Investigations, Drugs, World News

MADRID — Air pollution has long been a fact of life in Spanish cities, but scientists now say it is not just smog that chokes people as they wal...

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Breast Cancer Risk and the Dirty Air We Breathe

Frances Beinecke | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: California Air Pollution, Breast Cancer, Diesel, Air Pollution, Smog, Breast Cancer Gene, Health, Pahs, Green News

There are also over 200 chemicals in air pollution -- called PAHs -- that may also lead to cancer, including cancer of the breast.

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Kabul: One Of World's Worst Polluted Cities, Say Experts

Inter Press Service | Anand Gopal | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Kabul Smog, Kabul Pollution, Afghanistan Pollution, Smog, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Afghanistan Smog, Pollution, Advocacy, Kabul-Afghanistan, World News

KABUL, Apr 15 (IPS/IFEJ) - On any given day, a pall of smog and dust hangs over Kabul's streets. It clings to the face, burns the eyes, and stains ...

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Study: Air Pollution Shortens US Life Span

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 02.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Smog, Pollution, Air Pollution, Clean Air Act, Green News

LOS ANGELES — Cleaner air over the past two decades has added nearly five months to average life expectancy in the United States, according to a...

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Killer Mexican Smog Shortening Lives

AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 11.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Mexico, Smog, Pollution, Pollution and Health, Green News

MEXICO CITY — Mexicans would live an average of two months longer if they breathed cleaner air, Harvard researchers conclude in a study publishe...

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Was It "The Green Olympics?"

Deborah Seligsohn | Posted 09.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Olympics, China, China Pollution, Smog, Green News

The smog that marked the run-up to the games dissipated quickly, and Beijing enjoyed the best August air quality in many years. In the end, there were no reports of withdrawals from endurance events.

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Smog And Exercise: Should A Brown Layer Of Air Stop Your Outdoor Fitness Plans?

Los Angeles Times | Jeannine Stein | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Smog and Exercise, Smog, Exercise, Fitness, Smog Season, Smog and Health, Pollution, Outdoor Exercise, Green News

SMOG, shmog. Exercising outdoors is a way of life in Southern California, and die-hard runners, walkers, cyclists and skaters aren't going to let a br...

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China Reports Pollution Progress, Experts Say Smog Still Seriously Dangerous

New York Times | Keith Bradsher | Posted 06.14.2008 | Green

Read More: China Olympics, China, China Pollution, Smog, China Economy, Green News

HONG KONG -- After rising steeply for many years, emissions of three important pollutants began to decline last year, China's Ministry of Environmenta...

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Air Scare: Ten Dirtiest Cities in America

Planet Green | Jasmin Malik Chua | Posted 06.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Air Pollution, Smog, Global Warming, City Health, Green News

Although air pollutions across the United States have declined up until three years ago, two in every five Americans, or 42 percent, still live in a...

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